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  By JamesP · Posted 2 hours ago
  
  So 5 years in and think I now understand the summer bypass has minimal effective function in the warmer months. It's 16c outside, it's midnight but the air supplied is at 23c with summer bypass on or off. I naively assumed with the bypass on it would supply the external temperature and have a moderate cooling effect. Is the heat exchanger supplied by the extracts? Help.
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  By Tony L · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  @ProDave The site entrance is on the plan, but the drive isn't shown @neqinox I think I'd build the garage first - it's PD (unless PD has already been removed for this property, perhaps as a condition of a previous successful application). Then put in a planning application for a bigger than you want gym (some LA's love to say, "no"). Then you can negotiate down to the size you want, & the LA will feel like they have a win, because they think they stopped you doing what you wanted to do - that's the way it seems to work where I am, anyway. You've already got your garage, so if they remove PD when they grant permission for the gym, it doesn't matter.
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  By Nick Laslett · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  @CharlotteJ, here is the text of a post I made recently about the sound insulation topic. Here is a really good YouTube video from Ali Dymock that covers a lot of the concepts for sound proofing a wall.
- How feasible are these plans?
  
  By ProDave · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  Am I the only one having trouble to relate the photos to the plans, not even sure on the plan where the entrance onto the site is. In any event as above what is the question? If what you want is not PD you submit a planning application. What makes you want to avoid a planning app and what makes you think it would be refused?
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  By ProDave · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  Is your issue the opening up of the piles where it is pressed down at the edges? That I believe is called "grinning" If so the only way to avoid that is a different carpet. It is generally something you have to consider on a stair carpet where it is being formed round the nose of a stair.
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